6 THE SUN, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1915.

THE TRUE SOUL OF THE DIAGHILEFF RUSSIAN BALLETIts Interesting History Closely Inter-

wovenI I Some of the Tragedies, Mysteries and

With the Most Romantic Intrigues That Have Been LinkedEvents of the Nation With the Russian Dance

has been writ tin In theMUCH irres about thl

Ruesisn Iwllet. y-- t little hasbeen Mid of it real function, his-tory and out. The WMOP for thatIs the tinfamll.urlty Of the Amei-1-ctitx writers with actual Russian lifeand conditions, which are no differentfrom the Buropsan,

The Diaghileff ballet, which willmake its Niw York debut on January1" tit the Century under Mm mnnago- -Biom of th Metropolitan open Conpany. I it new word in the dancewm Id. It differs fundamentally fromthe class C Russian ballet of which theart of Pivlowa. MordUln. Klasnht.LopUkoVS ainl Geltgrr has given itfragmentary Idea. It In n group ofchoreographic revolutionists, an Inter-esting irsthotlc part of Russia. Theirart reflect! the spectral shadows of theSiberian Wlldl and the myster.ousmonasteries and krrmls

Bakst, Stravinsky. Kokine. N1J!nkyand KaraaVlM are all artretnis of their semi-Orient- al pace.Their plastic language is btsaire,vivid and colorful and they embodyitu-- - in nature with all its uncouthhe an i trace.

Before we consider the achievement!of the Diaghileff dancer! it in worthWhile to gel an idea of the old bulletand !: unique history, it has beenadmitted fiat the i: .mi, dancerbrini.-- ths iceni of his native treesand flowers, the songs of his nativebird, the leaps of his deer and thovery e l of bis (.uintry to the Mane.The RuMlntt bal.et exalt! the Kloomand glow of S seini-- i llenial life, theglittering towers of the cathedrals andthe luxuries of tbp teremas, the IdylHeisba! of the moujlks and the lonelyinn i! col wiies of Siberia, it! historyKm been closely Interwoven with themost thrilling romantic and tragicvents of tin nation, more than that

of any other art. As I have writtenin my book on dancing i

"The unwritten history of the enrhnntitn.- - Ruaslan dance would make athrilling r rd or three centuries. Theromance!, tragedies, mystsrles and in-trigues conin ted With thlS sealeddrama have often played a decisiverole iii the affairs of th untry,

"As the result "f a romance withpretty Teleshova, Oriboyedoff, thefnnems dramatist, sras kilhsl InTeheran, F or having dedicated hi!'Cugene negln' to tho faectoatlngJetom.ua. prims ballerina of the im-

perial Opera, Poushkln, the poet, :otthe love of las Wife and was aulwe- -gjuently sie.t in duel. The Csar Paulfell in love wit ii Bugeny Kolossova

and in coneequen e was strangled uthis paiaee In Petrogmd. Before 'liepres. nt Csar sscended the throne hewas t.' have ten so much In lovewith Mathilda Keheehlnskayn that hemode plans to renouncs his throne andgoarry her."

Having borrowed from the Frenchthe Choreographic skeleton and fromthe Italians ths mechanic contrivancesof the dame, the Russians have builttip themselves the actual body ndfllled It with genuine racial blond. Inthia they have created something en-

tire i different from what western Eu-rope bus known of the unlet.

Though Dldelot and Marias IVtipaare considered the founders of theclassic Ruseian ballet, yel in uctual-It- y

It Was the nationalistic Hchool ofmusic, Glinka. Balaklrcff, Durgomyj- -sky, serofr. Kfouavorgsky, Tachalkow-sk- y.

Rubinstein and Rlmsky-Kors- a-

1915 A RECORDContinued front Thint Pttyr.

Iowa and Kansas November 10, de- -gtroying much property ami causingthe death of , dozen persons. Octo-ber " ,i parochial seh,. i in Peabody,Ma-- .- whli ii was unprovided with fireSS capes, was burned and twenty-on- egirls ios-- , their lives, a factory tirein Brooklyn, N. v., November I rs- -Soiled In the death of twelve peTBORSNovember in the munitions plant ofthe Bethlehem Steel Company was de-stroyed by tire, causing a loss of

f'n the following day a firein the war material works of RoebMngHons Company at Trenton, N. J,,caused s loss "f 11,000,000. N'ovem-be- r

an explosion at the Du Pontp..vvd.-- works at fVUmlngton, l.k-i.- .

killed thlrtyone persons. December 9fire swept ihe Du Pont boom powdertown of Hop w, ii. Vs., throwing 10,000persons out of employment ami caus-ing t loss of several minions.

Advance in Discovery and In-vention.

Despite the universal distractionfrom no: mal Inv estigation engenderedby the gr European quarrel, scien-tifl- u

reeearch has rssultsd creditably,!and the contrlbuitloni of Inventivepi niiis have been considerable. lCarlyin the year trans-- ' ntineiitul telephonyv., shown lo oe practical, .lanuary 85Alexander Uraham Bell, inventor ofthe telephone, talked from New Yorkrity wub ios assistant In Han Fran-- 1CISCO, 'Hi the ,.--l day of April Wire-less communication between Washlnjg"ton and ths Canal StonO) a distance)of S.Ootl mllSS, was psrfSOtSd undniud practicable at all hours, May DUThomas A. Udlson announced he hadcompleted a device to la d lelephonic meaaagi i ii.- has named thisthe teleu.r.l,,, and be experts that ita-ii-i become of nr. practical serv

optomber lill still further advance inw.relea! iolegiupi,y wu.s reportedoftk-iai- s ot iha American Telephone

koff, which put the art of dancing Inthe amn racial frames Into whichLhey had already shaped the music'.'he Russian ballet developed gradu-atl- y

Into a new stage art and sep-- nrated Itself from the Frenrth-Italla- n

aristocratic academicism. Though theHi st Russian ballet master! were for-eigners yet the outward circumstancesac tinted them to apply their academicthtorle to the condition! of differentschool.

"A born dancer, n Russian couldnever stand the prescribed poies,SmllSS, tear!. !teps and gesture thatwere uid arc still practised outside.He Is ready to undergo the most stren-uous training and follows microsooptacally the instructions of the teach-ers In order to acquire the ne essarytechnique! but when It comes to aperformance he will put his sponta-neous ideas and Impulses above thetechnique and act according to hiiemotions and Inspiration. This Is apecularlty of the Russian, Ms is andremains nn individual. No school canput Mm on th same level with hisfellow students. Is not Pavlowa quitedifferent from Poking . r Karsat inaV"("The Dance," by the author.)

As in music no in dan. Ins a Htis- -t'.m strives to keep to the traditionsof ths race, While it is aristocraticpolitically Russia bus remained demo-cratic artistically, .vi Russian art.and particularly music and dan, ing,Is baaed on the rich folklore of thecountry,

While the west Kuropean composersand dance masters, especially In theirclassics, founded their creations on tra-ditions of this or that particular school.Russian ballet grew out of Joys andsorrows of the common people, MostOf the (real Russian composers anddancers were people of active hfe. whobecame artists only on the urgency ofinspiration. TschalkOWSky was a law-ve- r.

Olinka was an official In the bu-reaucratic regime, Moussorgsky was aretired army othYer and po.,r clerk,Borodino was a surgeon a ltd chemist.Rmisk - Korsakoff was a navy officer,Who even sciit some time during theClVll war In New York.

Thus they were all artists in touchwith the common people, the very op-posite of the composers of barman andLatin races, who created on y for theSalons of aristocracy. The latter wereand remained stranger! t, the peopleamong whom they lived. Everythingthey composed was strictly academicand expressed the artificiality andstateliuess of the nobility. Althoughgeniuses of tfreat technique andatyle, yel In racial color and spontaneIty they remain behind ihe Russians,

The same i true of all the tfreatRussian ballet dancers and reformers,They are children of the common peo-ple. The peasani but not the

or nobleman has remainedthe main theme of all the Russiandancers. The result is thai neither thecourt nor foreign academicism couldInfluence the Russian an of dancing,

The history of the Russian balletdates back to the rule of the '.'irAlexel Mlhailowltch, the hst Emperorof the dynasty of Romanoffs, who ruledfrom I;i3 tltl 145 Having heard ofthe French grand ballet in Pari- - thet'zar was interested to have a balletalso In Moscow. Hut the clergy wasagainst the idea of a public dance, andthus it was not until lt73 that the firs'Italian troupe performed "Orpheus andBurydlce" in Moscow,

The Herman pastor, the Rev. JohannGregory, invited the firs) Frenchdance teachers to Moscow, and youngstudents of the Military Academy andother colleges were taught to dancetie est European social dances, thegavotte, minuet, curante and others.Hat the real dancing school wasfirst founded by Empress Anna Ivan-OVn- a,

who followed Peter the tlrcat.it was a part of the aristocraticSmolnv College, and Christian Well-ma- n

was the first instructor and direc-tor of the institution. This was inITS."..

Nearly all the Russian Czars werepersonally Interested In the ballet andtook an individual care of tho choreo- -

und Telegraph Company carried onWlrelemi conversations between Arling-ton, Vs., and Honolulu, a stretch ofi.i'UO tulles.

Ths Interruption In the exportationfrom European countries, principallyfrom Germany, of dyestuffs used byAmerican manufacturers has stlmu-lute- d

experimentation In this countrjto a marked iegree. in February itwas announced at Wash ngton thatDr. Walter P, Rittman of the bureiuOf mines hud discovered new means ofIncrSMtng the quantity Of gnsoleneobtained from petroleum and also ofobtaining ingredients essential In themaking of high explosives and dye-stuff- s.

In April the Navy Departmentannounced that tin Mg newr battleshipCalifornia, under construction at theBrooklyn navy yard, would he pro-pelled by electricity the first onrecord. September 4 it was announcedthat an American chemist had dis-covered a way of making dyestuffsfrom coal tar. which will relieve theScarcity of this commodity occasionedby the war.

After u silence of eighteen monthsand a growing liellef that he hadfallen victim to the rigors of the Arcticword name from Canadian explorerStefan-so- n that he had discoveredland northwest of Prince Patrick Isl-and Three famous Americans havelieen awarded prizes by the directorsof tho Nobel Foundation. Thomas a.Bdlson and Nikola Tesla sh red equallyIn the prize for physics, and the chem-1-tr- y

prize .'or ItH was given to Prof.Theodore W. Richard, of Harvard

inlvsrslty,

New Records in Aviation andAutomobiling.

Despite the practical use made of Itby tic warring Burspsan nations, itcannot bo affirmed that air naviga-tion has made appreciable progressduring the year. FSW "f the marvel-lous achievements predicted for air-org- ft

of the type have been

Mlle. Thamar Karsavina in"Scheherazade."

graphic development. The first greatRussian ballet masters were LoCatollt,Mllferding, Lessogoroff and Dldelot.Didelol was the first to introduce thedramatic idea in the dance in whichthe Russian SOhOOl surpassed the oth-ers. But the real Russian ballet ge-niuses were Martus Pstlpa and PeUgKsheehinsky, one Preach, the otherRussian,

The ballets of tho old school laid aspecial stress upon the technique oftile toe and the marionette style ofmotion. According to that it Was notIndividuality, but the mat hematic de-sign that interested the dam ei Tothis sell, ,ol belongs t.i some ex-tent the art of Adeline tlenee, timwell known Danish ballerina it isonly natural that this style fails todetiue the relation of emotion andacting to the plot and makes dancinga complicated artificial salon plant.

It perhaps brilliant acrobatically,but vuid of soul and dead. This kindof dance bad little relation to the pho-netic image- - of the music, nothing, tosay. of individuality. Although uFrenchman by birth, Petipa wasRusslun in his nature anil followed therubs that Michelangelo had laid downIn sculpture Differing altogetherfrom previous authorities, he changedund remodelled the an of the balletfundamental!

However, if it bad no) been for thenew school of Bussisn composers. Pe-tipa OOUld baldly have accomplishedwhat be did. The Russian composersIntroduced dancing as an essentialpart of the opera ami they wr te spe-cial dramatic ballets, Tschalkowskyhas boon the most successful ballotCOmpOSer of the classic school. Ills"Snow Maiden." "Sleeping Beauty"and "Swan Lake" remaining till to-day as the most popular numbers ofths Russian ballet in Pstrograd andM'.scoW.

To my knowledge none of ihese busever been given abroad. They arecompositions based on fairy tales ofthe country, Tin- music is full oflyric beauty and graceful Images, Ihave never seen anything more mag-nificent than the Tschalkowsky "Swanitke" performed by the Imperialballet It Petrograd with MathildaKsheshinskaya as ths prima ballerina,

The Snow Maiden Is the issue of theunion of the gladsome fairy Spring

realized As an offenalve agent it- -psrformanca has not proved to imore brilliant than that of theheavier than nir machines, and neitherhas accomplished a tithe of whatWW expected. The aeroplane., havedone excellent SSrvlOS as scoutingand locating oraft, It is estimatedthat over .',"1111 of these machines aresmployed m aerial reconnaissance atthe present time by Hie fighting na-tions.

Wliile making a spectacular flightut the San Francisco expositionMarch 14, Lincoln Keuchy, the aviator,was killed by the collapse of his mono-plane. Kinslgn Melvln L. Ktoiz, aunited Slates naval aviator, whilemaking a Might at Pensaeoln, fellfrom his machine and wub killed, onthe Ia.st day of iMuv Ralph do palmsmade a new automobile record; hedrove his car at the rate of 8'J.K milesan hour, which was over ISVSn milesfaster than tho previous revord. InAUgUBt the collapse of an army aero-plane ut Fort sill, Oklahoma, causedthe death of Capt, QeorgO II. Knox.In the first contest for the Astor cup.ut New York city. October n, a newautomobile record was made, till An-derson drove his car ISO miles at the

irate of lug.a miles an hoar. Anotherunny aviator. Lieut, Walter D Talia-ferro, was killed during a fl.nht overfan Diego Hay. October 1'7 Oscar A.Hrlndley mado an aeroplane (light

along the California roast In ten hours,making a new record,

I

Important, but Briefly Men-tioned.

At New ( h ie ins, January the penisnany of the Anal battle between thet'nltcd States and (Ireat Britain wascelebrated. This battle was fOUghl twoweeks utter Ihe signing of the treatyof Orient, which ended the war. butnews of which had not yet reachedAmsrkgb January 4, ths i.nmion HtockKxchange was opened, after a flv!months discontinuance of business It

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Warslav Nijinsky in "Lc SpecMl. -- JtggB 11. t tre de la Rose."Oh

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Igor Stravinsky, composer of futurist music.Above, left Leon Bakst. Right Serge de Diaghileff.

YEAR OF WAR.was practically only a nominal open-ing, little bU!lness being duns on ac-count of tin- numerous restrictions.January i., marked ,1 new wheatrecord on the Chicago FrodUCS Kx-change. ihe highest point reachedsuite iS'.Oi, tin- year of the famousLetter cornel tl j a bushel was thetop riguie.

Tin- Peusma-Pacifi- c InternationalExposition was opened at Han Francisco February im witii appropriateotremony- Tin- 116,000 opening dayvisitors, especially those who had seenother similar exhibitions, were gener-ally of Hie opinion that it exceeded inarchitectural beauty and perfection ofdetuii any of its predecesaori De-spite the unfortunate ia k of tree co-operation entailed by the Uuropeanwar the foreign exhibit were notablyattractive and the Completeness Of III!domestic exploitation went far towardrepairing lie absence of overseanovelties, Contrary tu ths almostunlvsrsal financial outcome of theeemammoth undertakings, it Is an-nounced that the Sin FranclsCO ex-position has considerably more thanpaid its way.

on Hie last day of March the gov-ernors of the New York stock Kx-change removed the restrictions im-posed when the exchange reopened inDecember and business resumed Itscustomar) aspect. Predictions thnltills Institution hud reached a Slugs ofpermanent decline, which were madefreely after the outbreak of the war.have rot been verified, Mi the con-trary, the volume of transactions onchange has bl of unusual mugnl- -tude.

The heat ywelghl thainptonshlp ofthe world, held by th, negro Jack.Johnson for several years, was wonby .less Willaid in tie- twenty -- six Idround of a pontes I ai Havana Cuba,April .V M.iv U a large Heel ofAmerican warshipn Which flit tendays bad been Hlichursil In the NorthRiver, was reviewed bj 'resident Wil-son and HecrettigV Dana's.

HORRORJune Is tin- open golf champion-

ship of in,. United states was "onby Jerome D. Travel's, classed as anamateur, The national amateur g"ifchampionship was won September 4bj Boberl A, Oardner of Chicago atthe Detroit tournament. William M.Johnston ,,f San Francisco won thenational tennis championship Heptsm- -bsr 7 at i'orest Hills, N i Tin- latsc-ha- ll

championship series of the Amer- -in League wau won by the Boston

team, four games to one. played wltlttho Philadelphia Nationalteam.

The financial con-ference met at Washington May -- 4In discuss the mutter of promotingmore eatlsfactory business relationsbetween lOUth und Central Ameri-can republics and the V'nlted Slates.The conference brought gbOUl somuch good feeling and willingness topromots trade interests among thavarious countries that an annualmeeting was planned

July 14 a ti controversyin the curls ami among alienists wasbrought to an end by a decision of aNew Vork city Jury that Harry K.Thaw, who killed Stanford While, thearchitect, is of sound mind. July 18the Panama Canal was Iraveiaed forthe first tune by American battle-ships, the Missouri, Ohio ltii(l Wiscon-sin passing through on then- wayto ii.. San Franolscu exposition,September HQ tin- canal was closedto navigation Indsflnltsly on accountof landslide.-- , hi the Clllebl'a CUt. OnDecember 4 the Oscar II charteredby Henry Ford, automobile magnate, Ias a "peace ship'' 10 Convey himself jand a large party of invited gUSStS tothe Ruropeail war xone, sailed fromNew Vork.

Distinguished Dead of the Year.Willi a destruction of human Ufa

unparalleled in the history of man-kind, the Victims of the life and deathtruggle on the continent of Uuropa,

there has been no falling off in the

with the grim o;,i genie Winterfather jealously guards her from thecourting Sun God, who Is eager topour Upon Iot hi scorching and de- -structt ve rays, Winter would like tokeep her in the f .resj. but her mother,proud of her child's beauty, wants tosend lo r into the busy world to eh.trmits Inhabitants,

Tho fairy feels the emotions t4 loveand performs a thrilling anthem ofpaasion. She wanders dancing fromVillage to Village in sear, b of a lover.Finally she realises that there is nomething wrong with her loan.

Spring appears to her .md it 's herheart with love Hut at the momentshe wants to embrace, her lover the!tin ray POUTS its heart on lo r andshe dissolves in a vapory dance to air.Almost all of the Russian ' tsslcballets have been, based on similar im-aginary themes.

The Russian ballet of the claesicschool has based the climax of the al tupon the to technique and the gymnastic brilliancy, it is the pirouette,the chasse ai.d the Jete, the acrobaticthrill that interests a ballerina of thisSchool Although occasionally suchtechnique Is appropriate, as in the caseof Pavlowa'! performance of Qlasu-nof- f

s "Autumns Bacchanal!" or Dri- -Bo's "Butterfly yet it cannot be em- -ploved everywhere.

What does the humnti body expri sswhen it actji as a spinning wheel .'Although Pavlowa surpassea In hermagic swiftness, limiting grace andbirdlike agility most of her rivals, vetwe Und Pavlowa in every phase ofher art cannot grasp the phonetictruth of the composition The best ofths Russian ballet dancers of thsclassic sc hool mi to express ths plas-tic language of the music.

It is tin- - question of expressing themusic that has created the Diaghileffballet. Diaghileff is i great Russlunart connoisseur and critic Himself -! des having Studied music at the Im-perial C nservatory of Music In Petro.gran and hating edited ope of the mostmodern art periodical!, A" an experton the rteld of music, painting atuldrama Mr. Diaghileff realized the d -flclsncy of the old balist and smsopenly out in his art magaslne for anational dance reform

The reason foe this was IsadoraDuncan, whose appearance in Russia

AND GREAT DISASTERnumber of those who have pasied intothe bsyotld utter the normal fashion,on January I of eminent dead ale theRight Rev, Thomas M A Burke,

Catholic Hishop of thi dloces fAlbany, u genial and popular SCOjesl"ustto; Uleut.-Oe- n. Anaiole M. Btosssel,the brave defender of Port Arthuragun.st the Japansse; Marshall P.Wilder, the optimistic little snteitalneri Ihe Rev, Richard M Beneon,

.one of the founders of tin- Allglli anOrdes of si. John the Kvangettst, andQeorge B, Frothlngham the originalFnnr Tuck of the Bostontuns, Twofamous women were among tie I'

dead Mary Kllsaheth Braddotone of the most prolific and widelyread novelists of modern times, ai IFanny Oroeby, the blind wrltrr ofhymns und songs. Two famous lour.nallsts also on the lln JamesCrsslman and Bamuol t Pickard,biographer ami literary execui ir ofthe poet Whiltler.

At the head of til! Maw Ii listthe once powerful name of Cunt Her- -gins J. Wltte, lie- Russian statesmunothers almusi equally prominent intheir various sphere- - w.ie HumuelBowles, noted editor of ihe Hprlngfli idRepseMt'OH ; Mrs juhn D, Rockefeller,wife of the head of Standard tltl;Charles Francis Adums, eminent ilorlan and publicist, and Baron NathanM Rothschild, head of thi Britishbranch of that family. Apnl markedthe passing of f Hopklnson Rmlthequally export as author, painter andengineer: Nelson w. Aldrlch, formerl'nlted Stabs Sen., ton from Rhodeisland, an authority on tin. in. mdthe tariff; Frederick w. Reward, us- -sistunt to l.i- - littler. Wi Hum '. Sew-ard, who wa- - Hecretury of gti teIii three Administrations, and Jul IIBunny, bsst known of all movlug pic-ture actors, in May ihe lorpeduliig ofthe Uualtanls brought sudden death uKlbtrt Hubbard, Charles Fttdtman,Charles Klein, Herbert 8, itone, Alfred

hail DrMted such contradictoryand discussions. Although Isa-

dora's art was declared amateurishand Unsatisfactory ISOhnlCSSly, never-theless ev ery comtwiw r. cnltlc anddancer who saw her exhibition ad-mitted that there was a great dealof truth In her principle,

It was the Inlluonoe of Delsarte andMrs. R. ffOVO.V that created the Dun-can's naturalistic dancing, which shehas termed either (Ireek or classic.The fundament tl theory of the natu-ralistic dance isnents was the re-turn to nnture,

DslsaTtS tSUghl that dancing, likeacting, is an expression of natureWater, wind, hlri.s atid wild animal!are subject to n Ifvv of gravity. Notthe, spectacular wl iris and MM (lan-cer's tricks, but soft sietlc curvesthese stcsid closer to mature. ManIn his normal life and savage statemoved rather in slow curvee thanIn quick hnoken lines.

According to Duncan, only the an-cient Greeks based their art of dan-cing on these principles, therefore forher the Greek an remained tho onlylogical , rlterton. Already Noverre,the great Fsench ballet matter of theseventeenth century, had rmphiudr.i'dthe fact of i.attiral graco and PlSSttCbeauty of the b'sjy The same waatrue of many Russian dance authori-ties. Put the effect of Duncan's con.trust eras so strong thai men likeDiaghileff, Baksi and Nijinsky aerestart, e,l by lie' difference. It was thiaparticular event that gave birth to.lie present Diaghileff ballot.

Tin' real founder of the new Rue- -slan ballet is MMiail Foktns, a gonialRussian ballet master and dancer whofor some ars had acted as an as- -s.stant of Petipa in Petrograd. I'oklneleal. zed the great trut.h of Duncan'sart and its Shortcomings, He saw aireiit ciiar.ee to take tip the matter

seriously and systematically and com-bine the naturalistic dancing theorywith a perfect technique,

Hut Koklne was not rich man andcould not undertake anything funda-mentally independent from the aca-demic school. hi the other hand, the

csidemlc Imperial Ballet in Petrogradand MOSCOW WOtlM not tolerate such arevolutionary move. The only thingleft for Foklne to do was either tokeep quiet or to And somebody w hocould back the .venture This some-body ho found in Diaghileff. who hadlast begun to publish an art magaz.ne.

For Some time Diaghileff did nothave an opportunity to do anythingdefinite with Foklns's projected newIvuilet in Russia. Hut his natgSStnSfaded and he undertook to producethe art of his most typically nationalistlc compatriots abroad particularlyIn Paris Me introduced to the Parispobllc the art of Bakst, the operas ofMoussorgsky snd Borodlne, and IhsSSproved to ts an immense surress

Tins encouraged him to try theFoklne ballet tiam-i- ' g, as such hidlieen never given even in Russia. InKarsavina ami Nijinsky he knew twooxoolIcM artists and these he sur- -rounded with a group of others. Hegot in Ibis way a tine company, butwhat could he do Without tie mils.. ?Tho academic bullet! that hud Is-e-performed offered little )a.-i- s for thsnew art. The only way left was topatch music from various Russianoperas, symphonic poems, suites andSimilar pecs and fit them around anappropriate theme or plot of theballet

In this j' they created "Cleopat l a." "Scheherazade" and others.Foklne did not like the patching busi-ness .md mad, efforts to get somethingspecially modern and specially writtenfor the dancing. At this very junc-ture the Diaghileff ballet made the

"f the orchestral works ofIgor Htnwvlnsky, a talented youngI: Ias Ian composer of the ultra modernechoed, in him tin y found the missinglink and from that time on the newbaiiet Is gan to develop systematicallyto a great and new itage art.

What is Baksl in colors und de-signs, that Is Stravinsky in tone:bizarre, dynamic, original and refresh-ing, To my judgment Stravinsky,poraesslng a remarkable orchestratechnique and power of Imagination,is the greatest genius of tho ballet

ii Vanderbilt and other inaplcuouaAmericai s,

Admiral Aubcri. chief of the QensraSniff of the French navy, tirand D ikeConetaiitine Constantlnovltoh, head oflie Russian mil. t. try schools; KilenHardin IVolworih, one of the founders.,f the Daughters of the AmericanRevolution i Rafasl Jossffy, the pianist,gad Jsremlah ''Donovan Rivss.i, Irishpatriot, stand prominently on the June' t. In July some of the famous "leadwere Porflrlo Diaz, former ruler ofMexico; the Mom Rev, James KdvMirdQuigley, Roman Catholic Archbishopof Chicago; John H. Herreshoff, notedShipbuilder, and Kilen ti White, oneof Ills founder.- - ot the Seventh DayAdvsntlsts.

August marked ths clone of thesalt hi) career! of Benjamin V Tracy,fanner Secretary of the Navy; CharlesII. Clark, widely known as "Max Ad-der. " humorist; Cardinal Vanutslll,dean of Ihe Sacred College; Dr. CharlesJ Flnlay, who branded the mosquitoas the car'. ei- - of the yellow fevergerm; John D Long, Secretary of theNavy under McKlnley and Rooseveltend former Onvernnr of Massachusetts,ami Antonio Flores, former Presidentof Rcuador.

Cardinal issiry, the Roman f'uth-oi- uPrimate or Hungary, died in

September as did also WilliamUpragus, famous civil war Oovertioyof Rhode leiand; John H Van imring!, more than twenty years deanof Columbia I'nlverslty; AnthonyComstock, Ijitinclhla vies fighter DrAustin Flint, noted tllenlst; JanesKeir Hurdle, British labor leader. JohnW I look waiter, once prominent inOhio politics, and Andrew L Harris,former Clovcrnor of that stale

Uspvclally notable In ti e n i ',rmurtuary list arc the names theRight Rev. Robert Codman l'rottstanlKpiSCOpgl Hishop of M line. John pj.Putnam, nu'inliei of i fatnoiu iiiihlisliiina house; Roderick d. iutherland,former Congressman from Nebraska;

music that ever lived iIs not decadent and Sri Nelal, .spontaneous Stravin-k- v s "lYtroiMka" and "Fire Bird" ore (ballets, full of Imaginary . on atmiggestlnn. Tho only drawl iIn the old fashioned form : ttion and In the use of drama 1acteri!ttci In the order of .lie ., 4i.let!.

The DUghlleff ballet i hsisolid foundation and lalenteilship. You will find in II Itlli ftoe trick! and gymnast Ii display nthe exponents of the old I) y,.will And MJlnsky and Ku ,v n,dancer!, but hardly acrobatl!

Their floWSTllks bodies, r eniinitlio spirit of tlv Russian v Itdreams with silent and grai'efti move,ments. Dike magicians of a difffreglera, they remove you from ' r.dof flesh to a dimension ofmeat. While Nijinsky with hitplasticity porsonilles the ,,,,..,;., ,Russian youth, KafSSVlns IIgitzellellke gno e and Oriental beaut)proves herself as tile blossom K !slan womanhood.

They ilam e the music, althouso truly as d('s Lada, the youaiAmerican girl, yet smoothly and fuof passion. Their bodies Sieak lilMMtales of a Thousand and :,. gThey visualize certain pas-at- e- ,,; ;:,music with magic power. Their srtis supreme.

The weak point of the i --ballet lies In its keeping to theclassic style of acting ami n danthe ilramatlc stories. I have emphisized In my Isxik on dan Ing thisflclency and its n medy more ru'if all the modern dancers tLadS, Troiihanoa, Nijinsky and Po.klne have grasped t'ie truth tii.closely than any other of the r rlv.iYet they all are not altogether ftrtfrom the old troubles.

All want to dunce n store ! hihad a hard time to persuade Ladsdefy the act.ng. th.- story In tin dir.w hich destroys the very psn h, e nfchoreographic art and eats awayvery- - texture. "I do r.ot saaltuthe working out of such. I p,nealnst an Indspsndenl workint orthat Is. a separate ,ni running acourse other than that in Which m ilIs the greatest essential.

"I remember one ,,f the heel tvbruins contorting herself n cmovement- - of anguish While the Bolof the vlolto wa re , mg awav in klottg sound of a trill. She 'acted,' srthere Is, of course, no harm in thhut she acted according to her Idessinstead of nit ng according to in .fli Is just the some sin us if a - 't-were to execute a lyric songbravado." ("Th Dance," thauthor.)

I am sure that the Diaghileff ha'.leiwill is.- a. great source if Htlmuisti tfor the American artist and dan.HuWOVSr, It Is a pity that Pol, n-not connected with the ballet on tloccasion. I doubt that Diushlteff .,keep up ti,,- high standard ,.f hispany without Foklne for any Iiof time What Stravinsky is in nBaksl in painting, thai it-- Pichoreography; a perfect masteihuman plastic. The Initiative rDiaghileff ballet belongs toFoklne, and be. to my mindgreat reformer, the m iNi iverre.

There ore two physical Hgefl htmsnns of which we op pre late sThese two agents are the iiKurds sound, and the Whole n-system ss regards rhythm TIdefect of the Diagh leff lull- -lias heen tha; it develops landIndependently of music, I. .. omof their dance, definitewhich has crystallised lte wltl tiwell establishe, limits, v .vat it even without ni'i- - c, - towat ti u pantomime wltl 'sthe flrsl p ace It will - u iout color, quite an te ',ii the ssnnnrt. .; will im a -out skeleton, somethli n u tl

The main fault vv III Idem nfthe modern ballet is that it lbcentra of gravity of the intilut. In the event. story; vin painting i? . : literatureWhereas the subject tt the .Satnot the plot, hut the subjei t Is n thsmusic.

Charles k. Holder, sclent nthorny In natural lust. .rvW. Story, successful Americailor, Paul Krnest Hcrvleti. one 'most fatuous of moderndramatists, and Kr Charh pMprominent Canadian taten m

Among those of great d 'who died in November were rnistiRaider, editor t' c gfears- - ' fssa leading Qertnan newsi ipei f ttiscity ; ivtw A. H Wldi i. icler. phllsnthropisi ami art . - 'Philadelphia; Hooker Tnegro educator, l ead of the ITuskegee Institute; Jul is cCongressman and Senator fi Mpan for more than a u I, ' 'sentury; Theodore Lesi ietof many of the piano v.r of theday, and Susan K Dickln n "the famous Anna end well ' ' wna newspaper on espondei

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